Humanitarian Intervention: Nomos XLVII

by Melissa S. Williams and Terry Nardin

Somalia, Haiti, Bosnia, and Kosovo. All are examples where humanitarian intervention has been called into action. This timely and important new volume explores the legal and moral issues which emerge when a state uses military force in order to protect innocent people from violence perpetrated or permitted by the government of that state. Humanitarian intervention can be seen as a moral duty to protect but it is also subject to misuse as a front...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0814758312
• ISBN13: 9780814758311
• Release Date: December 2005
• Publisher: New York University Press
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.01 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 5.9" x 8.5"